The Penn's Grove record., 1887-03-05
NEWS OFTHE WEEK

&1S N&eAAAS WI " a. ~
rived at San Francisco on the oath
from Honolulu, brings particulars of
the great lava flow from Mauna Loa.
The sight is said to have been magnif-
cent beyond description. ''The column
of fire was first observed from the sum-
nit of the crater on the night of Janu-
airy 10th. The fire died down before
midnight, but great volcanic disturb
ances continued up to the night of the
18th, when fire and lava again burst
forth from the mountain side. The
length of the flow is estimated at twenty
miles. This distance the lava accom-
plished in two days, spreading as it de-
scended, reaching the sea on the even
ing of January Goth. The stream of
! lava continued to flow without inter-
ruption until the 29th, when a river of
fire burst forth, following the line Of
lava flow. When the fires famed out
the heavy earthquakes ceased, although
slight tremors were felt at intervals
thereafter"
The kerneling mill, of the Powder
Mills at Warren, Maine, blew up on
the oath, severely injuring the Superin-
tendent and a workman
I'm Mobile, a runaway horse jumped
into a group of children who were
playing on a sidewalk and tramp!ed to
death a five year-old boy.
"A fire at Nebraska City Nebraska,
IN the morning of the oath, destroyed
Hawkes. and the Masonic and Odd
Fellows blocks. Loss, SIT, 800. Sew
eral fireman were injured by falling
walls.
The six. story iron front and side
warehouse of Darby & Co., candy man
ufacturers, in Baltimore, was destroyed |
by fire on the morning of tie 25th ult.
Within twenty minutes after the dis
coveTy of the fire all the walls had
fallen, and a four-story building in the
rear occupied by the same firm was also
destroyed. The flames are supposed to
have started from a gas jet in the Gel
ar. The loss is estimated at $3.50, 900;
insurance, 100000 Only three or four
persons were in the building (the fire
occurring before the working hour, |
but eve these few escaped with diff
Guilty.
The st. Louis Industrial Gazette
announces that ''there has Just been
uncovered Fear Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
a bed of red hematite iron ore sixteen
feet thick, which analyses sixty-two |
and one half per cent. of metallic iron,
and believed TO be the most extensive
and valuable deposit of the kind in the
United States
-Four cases of small pox have been
reported in Holyoke, Massachusetts,
since noon, the oath ult. The disease
is supposed to have started among the
rag soiters at the paper mills.
The boiler of the engine of a
passenger train on the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad exploded at
a street crossing in Chicago on the
afternoon of the 26.h ult., killing
Gustavus Meinzer, the engineer, and
Clarence Law, the fireman. TIE
conductor, Woodward, was severely
injured. A woman passing along the
street was dangerously injured ty a
flying piece of iron, and several other
persons sustained slighter injuries.
One piece of iron went through the
window of a house and knocked down
a woman with a baby in her arms.
While a large new passenger engine,
the civilian II. Sayre," was backing
down from Black Ridge Station, on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad, on the
Goth ult., it ran off the track and was
overturned. Immediately forwards
the DO Ter burst, demolishing the en-
CINE and dangerously injuring William
and John Pickering, brothers, the en-
glneer and fireman. 1t was feared
that John was fatally injured. A new
steel boiler at a coal shaft at Carbon.
Indiana, burst OIL the morning of the
Goth ult., killing a boy and dangerously
iniurlng the engineer and his helper.
John w. Neale, a prominent citi-
zen of Charles county, Maryland, was
killed ON the oath by the accidental
discharge of a gun while hunting with
some friends.
"A telegram from Bismarck, Da-
kota, reports a terrible blizzard raging
west of that place. An East bound
passenger train on the Northern Pacific
Railroad is snow bound near Sentinel
Butte. A severe snow storm prevailed
on the oath ult., throughout the north
ern sections of New York, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont. About a foot Of
snow fell upon a level. but was blown
in places into drifts from five to twenty
feet deep. Railroad travel i'll all dlrec-
tons was blocked.
The largest Oil wells In Ohio were
struck on the 26th ult., one twenty
miles and another forty miles south of
Toledo. Each flows at the rate OF
nearly 1900 barrels a day.
Six boys-Walter Moon, Walter
Heath, William Pierce, John Gregg,
Charles Bonstem and Manning CARTS
aged from II to Is years, and all of
Easton, Pa, were killed by a train on
the Lehigb Valley Railroad near that
city on the 26th ult. They had been
hunting muskrats and were walking
home along the track in a bfindining
SnOwstorm. A coal train approaching
they stepped On the opposite track and
were struck by a fast passenger train.
There were sever in the party, and only
Que escaped. He was Knocked of the
track u%ninjured, while the others were
thrown between the tracks or against
The sides Of the coal train.
The Ridgewood Candy Manufac.
turing Company's building, in Brooklyn,
n. Y, was damaged by fire, on the
evening of the 26th ult., to the extent
of about $780, 600; insured. The fer
tllizing works OF Fowler Brothers, at
the stock yards, Chicago. were burned
on the 26th ult. Loss $40, 600; covered
by insurance. Five buildings in Mem
phis, Missouri, were burned on the 26th
ult. Loss, S24 600.
"A slight earthquake was felt in
South Carolina about 6 O'Clock OF the
morning of the Goth ult. AT Summer
vile the vibration lasted about five
seconds and in one house a vase was
thrown down. The movement was
rom west to east. 1t j said that since
he earthquake on January 3lst, the
and in Tyre | county, On the North
Carolina coast, has risen twelve inches.
Mrs. Cart and her two children
Eere caught by violent snow storm
while returning from a VISIT to a neigh.
boring ranch near iiolbrOok, Arizona,